Cryptographic Appliances (my former employer) have kindly allowed the release
of this code into open source and so this sourceforge hosting will allow that
code to have a new home for ongoing development and releases. The distcache
package is licensed under the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License).

Latest News:

[19-Oct-2004]distcache 1.5.1 development release

This update from the development branch corrects
most of the fallout from the libnal overhaul and certainly is a lot
more usable now. 1.4 is still considered preferable for production
purposes while 1.5 is under development, but anyone wanting the faster
and better stuff in 1.5 should find that it performs well and that the
new APIs are a lot more flexible.

[19-Oct-2004]update for apache 2.0.52 support

The good news is that distcache support code is now
maintained in Apache's CVS, which means it should be present in
releases from 2.1 onwards. For now, the 2.0 support has been updated for
httpd-2.0.52.

[24-Mar-2004]distcache 1.4.5 stable release

Version 1.4.5 of distcache has been released,
and the 1.4 branch it comes from is now the official "stable" branch. The older
stable branch (0.4) has been deprecated. This version includes a major
bug-fix to dc_client, and all users should strongly consider upgrading.

The main use for this software is in supporting clusters of SSL/TLS-enabled
servers (eg. secure web servers) in such a way that they can share a single
network-based session cache. 'distcache' is already integrated with Apache 2.0
(or Apache 1.3 with mod_ssl), and any other OpenSSL-based application should be
easy to adapt. However the protocol, libraries, and tools provide very generic
interfaces for a variety of possible uses beyond SSL/TLS.

There is a network abstraction library built as part of the 'distcache'
package, known as libnal (Network Abstraction Library). Even if that's
all you're interested in, yes - you have found the right place. :-)